Meanwhile, up on top of that hill, the Parks look up from their couch and see the spacious blue sky, the beautiful towering trees, the impossibly green grass.
For the Kims, anything outside their own four walls is a dead end. They look up from dinner and only see the other busybodies trying to make end’s meet. The Viewīecause the Kim family is eye-level with the streets, their view is shrouded in grey, in concrete, in manmade structures. And if the Kims work hard enough, they are told by society they can have their own home on the hills someday. The Park home? That’s the goal, the aspiration-the promise of capitalism. This is the environment to which they come home each day.
One key motif throughout the film is the levels at which people reside: you either live in the low-level apartments hidden away in the city like the Kims, or you exist in the open-aired, showcased houses that rest at the top of hills like the Parks.Īs the Kim family traipses home each day, they wander down slowly descending streets into their tiny apartment, which is actually situated slightly underground-low enough to be eye-level with the street, and low enough to be engulfed in sewage water.
Let’s take a look at various components of the film that lend some insight into the capitalism reading.
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